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Charlie Dalin Wins New York Vendee Les Sables d’Olonne Solo Race Across the North Atlantic
9th June 2024 Vendee Globe
After leading the 28 boat IMOCA fleet since last Monday morning, and today holding a margin of over 300 miles over second place, French skipper Charlie Dalin tonight completed an emphatic victory on the 3200 nautical miles New York Vendee…
Entries are still open for the National Yacht Club Regatta on Saturday 15 June. The NYC promises and exciting day’s racing followed by amazing entertainment onshore with its biennial regatta next weekend. So as the club says, “get your boat…
Royal Irish Regatta Gets New Title Sponsor, Set for Saturday 29 June
8th June 2024 Royal Irish Yacht Club
The Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin Royal Irish Regatta 2024 takes place on Saturday 29 June. The Royal Irish Yacht Club says it looks forward to a great event of sailing, dining and entertainment for members, their crew, friends and family…
Lough Derg RNLI were requested to launch by Valentia Coast Guard on Saturday afternoon (8 June) to locate and assist a swimmer reported to be in difficulty by a member of the public on shore. The bystander could see the…
12-15 knot northwesterly winds and sunshine produced a strong turnout for Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club's biennial Regatta on Dublin Bay on Saturday. The one-day competition got the local regatta scene underway as the first of the four waterfront clubs’ regattas at…
Long-Awaited Action Plan for Lough Neagh to Go Before NI Executive This Week
8th June 2024 Environment
Belfast Live reports that an eagerly awaited action plan for Lough Neagh is to go before the Northern Ireland Executive in Stormont in the coming days. It follows last week’s questioning of DAERA Minister Andrew Muir by his own department’s…
Dublin Bay’s environment is being polluted by election posters which are up to 30 years old. As The Irish Times reports, environmentalist Brian Bolger and his son Colm have located many around Bull Island Nature Reserve and Dollymount Strand on…
The search for a missing sailor off the Connemara coast has been stood down after a body was located this morning (Sat). Identity details for the body have not yet been confirmed. However, the sailor reported missing on Thursday evening…
Along the Atlantic seaboard and up in the hills, they call them high stool days. Such days are with us when the weather is so thrawn that a particularly harsh period is best spent in agreeable indoor surroundings, with good…
The High Seas by Dr Olive Heffernan on Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas Programme This Weekend
7th June 2024 Marine Science
On the weekend of UN World Ocean Day, Irish marine scientist and journalist Dr Olive Heffernan will discuss the findings of her widely praised new book on the subject. The ocean covers 70 per cent of the planet’s surface and…
Celebrating UN World Oceans Day 2024: The Marine Institute Emphasises the Importance of Ocean Conservation
7th June 2024 Marine Science
The Marine Institute is proud highlighting the importance of the ocean surrounding our shores by celebrating UN World Oceans Day on Saturday, 8th June 2024. The United Nations World Oceans Day takes places on 8th June each year, and raises…
Royal St George 'Phantom' Trio Lead Dragon Easterns at Kinsale (Photo Gallery Here!)
7th June 2024 Dragon
Royal St. George Yacht Club trio Neil Hegarty, David Williams and Conor Byrne in Phantom (IRL225) lead the Zurich Dragon East Coast Championships after two races sailed off Kinsale, Co. Cork. The Dublin Bay boat has the same five points tally…
French Skipper Charlie Dalin Set to Secure Victory in New York Vendée Les Sables d’Olonne Solo Race
7th June 2024 Vendee Globe
After leading the New York Vendée Les Sables d’Olonne solo race across the Atlantic since Monday morning, top French skipper Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) is expected to cross the finish line during Saturday night to take a resounding victory…
Initial Challenge to Race Officer Overcome to Produce Excellent DBSC Flying Fifteen Race
7th June 2024 Flying Fifteen
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Race Officer John McNeilly certainly had a challenge on his hands on Thursday night past as Mother Nature decided she initially wasn’t going to play ball with his plans for the one-design fleet, SB20s, Flying…
Irish Ferries Announce New Names for Ireland-UK/France Routes Ferry and Strait of Dover Ship
7th June 2024 Irish Ferries
Irish Ferries chartered cruise-ferry Oscar Wilde, currently operating Rosslare-Pembroke on a temporary basis, is later this month to return to Dublin-based routes to Holyhead and Cherbourg, France, but under a new name. The ferry company has a proud tradition of…
Disruption on Strait of Dover as Ferry Services at Calais Affected by Strike Action
7th June 2024 Ferry
Ferries operating from Calais to Dover, the busy France-UK short-sea link, have been disrupted due to strike action taking place at the northern French port. All three ferry companies serving on the Strait of Dover route, DFDS, Irish Ferries, and…
One of the Naval Service’s offshore patrol vessels (OPV) is to be open to the public tours when berthed in Killybegs Harbour tomorrow, 8 June. The LÉ William Butler Yeats (P63) as the naval pennant number indicates, is the third…
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Kenny Rumball of the Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School is holding a Sea Survival Course on Tuesday, 11th June, from 6-9 pm and Sunday, 16th June, from 9.30 am-5 pm. Experience what it is like to board a liferaft…
The Dragon Eastern Championships witnessed a first for host club Kinsale Yacht Club on Friday (June 7th), when the club deployed robotic marks for the first time for the three-day event. The move to the new marks follows their success…
Eight of the 13 M15 dinghies made it to the start line for the first-ever Melges15 race last night at Howth Yacht Club. Race Officer David Sargent ran two races for the new fleet alongside the other HYC dinghies in…